Swimming the south’s 344 lakes

March 2023

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March 2023

Liana Smith at Lake Unknown – one of 344 South Island lakes.
A community of more than 200 South Island swimmers are hoping to float and freestyle their way across every lake in the South Island. The Southern Lakes Swimming Club (SLSC) believes the ‘dream’ to swim in all of the South Island’s 344 named lakes to be ‘near impossible’. But it has set the challenge for its […]
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